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Added on the 31/01/2020 18:25:18 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images
Exclusive images from inside the holiday resort where some 180, mostly French people arrived on Friday after being repatriated to France from Wuhan in China, the epicentre of the new coronavirus epidemic. They will remain in quarantine for two weeks in this seaside resort near Marseille. IMAGES
Members of France's emergency services are already stationed in front of the holiday resort of Carry-le-Rouet, near Marseille, ahead of the arrival of 200 French citizens repatriated from Wuhan, the epicentre of the coronavirus epidemic. They will be placed under two-week quarantine before being allowed back home. IMAGES
French president Emmanuel Macron gives an update on the French repatriation operations at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' crisis centre. The Head of State is accompanied by the Head of Diplomacy Jean-Yves Le Drian and Secretary of State Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne in the "telephone answering" room, where calls from French citizens wishing to return from abroad are taken. More than 130,000 French citizens have been repatriated since March 16. IMAGES
French nationals arrive at New Delhi airport in buses chartered by the French Embassy in India, to board the first repatriation flight which is expected to take about 500 French nationals back home. The majority of them are tourists trapped by the 21-day national lockdown ordered by the Indian government to fight the spread of coronavirus. IMAGES
Around 200 French nationals and several foreigners are transported to a quarantine centre on the southern French coast after being repatriated from Wuhan in China to flee the coronavirus. They will spend two weeks in a seaside holiday resort in Carry-le-Rouet. Their plane landed around 12:30 pm at the Istres military base, about 60 kilometres from Marseille. IMAGES
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